Welp... Here I am! It took a while but here is chapter 8! I'm really sorry for making you guys wait but, as I said before, this was really hard to pull off. I constantly got stuck in simple phrases just beacuse I didn't know how to write the things that were inside my mind but after a long periods of thinking and a lot of determination (almost like Undertale...), I managed to finish this today, also, I'm posting this in the same moment I finished writting so I did not have time to read it myself to try to find mistakes like I always do, so there may be more errors tha usual. Anyway...
Without any more hesitation...
Enjoy the read =D
This is all or nothing!
Were the words that roamed inside the introvert's mind. Their situation was dire, they're facing a beast created to kill the Symbol of Peace himself, they had multiple injured victims and reinforcements were nowhere to be seen… This was his only choice.
'Just running to save Nejire was enough to crack my bones and keeping the percentage so high slowly destroys my body… But I have to do it, I have to save everyone!' Izuku motivated himself, keeping his gaze locked on the villains in front of him. 'Judging by my current state, I only have about one minute and thirty seconds before I lose the ability to move…'
'I'll have to make these moments fell like an entire hour!'
As the green haired strategized, Nejire just stared at her 'savior' in awe while the boy held her in his arms.
'Why does he make me feel so… safe?' the bluenette wondered while instinctively pulling herself closer to the boy's embrace
As Izuku stood strong in the villain's path, a portal appeared beside the villain covered in hands, revealing the mist evildoer that apparently brought bad news…
"I have returned, Tomura Shigaraki!" he announced, revealing the villain's true name.
"Kurogiri… Have you killed Thirteen?"
"He's incapacitated but that's not the problem… There we're some kids that I couldn't warp away and one of them has escaped…" the mist explained.
"I swear, if you weren't our ticket out of here I would've already turned you to dust!" Tomura muttered with anger filling his voice.
'So we have reinforcements coming… That's great!' Izuku celebrated while keeping his strong composure.
"We don't stand a chance against a bunch of pros… It's game over!" the villain with hands growled, realizing that his efforts had been for naught. "We better leave before they arrive…but until then…" he paused.
"Let's leave a few dead kids… To hurt the Symbol of Peace's pride… Starting with that one!" Tomura exclaimed, pointing his finger towards the girl in Izuku's arms.
"You won't lay a single finger on her!" the introvert roared, tightening his grip on the girl's body.
"Of course! I'm not the one that's going to do the dirty work… That's why Nomu is here!" he declared as the beast took a step forward. "You have your orders…"
"Kill that girl!"
With the command given, the black beast charged at the green hero, prepared to strike anything in his way.
"Hold on tight!" Izuku shouted as the sparks from his body became more erratic.
In a quick swing, the Nomu attacked, lifting a cloud of dust where Izuku was and releasing a powerful blast of wind but, in the blink of an eye, the green hero was behind the monster, untouched, as the dust quickly fell down, revealing that the monster's arm was stuck on the floor.
'Don't mind the pain… Just keep moving!' the green hero yelled in his mind as he and the girl disappeared.
In multiple blurs, Izuku moved through the plaza and, one by one, picked Tsuyu, Denki, Tamaki and Aisawa and brought them to where Mirio was, placing them safely on the floor. Everyone just watched in awe, even Denki, that was slowly recovering his neural functions, was surprised.
"Mirio, can you move?" the introvert asked while watching the beast behind him.
"My arm is a bit damaged but it is nothing I can't handle!" he explained, shaking his damaged arm to demonstrate that it was still moving.
"Good… I need you, Tsuyu and Denki to take everyone away from here!" Izuku ordered, placing Nejire in the peerless hero's arms.
"What?! We can't leave you alone with that thing!" Tsuyu exclaimed but the introvert silenced her placing their unconscious teacher in her shoulder.
"I'm the only one that can keep up with that thing's speed… I'll keep the villains occupied so you all can leave safely!" he exclaimed, placing Tamaki in the electric teen's shoulder.
"Bu-uT YoUU can'TT De-eFFeaT Themm alo-oNNe…" Denki tried to say while he held Tamaki.
The green haired did not respond…
Victory had never been in Izuku's plan; he knew he couldn't win. That thing was just as fast and strong as he was and his clock was ticking. Even if somehow he managed to defeat the Nomu, he would still have to fight the other two, and with most of his body falling apart, it would for sure be impossible.
Mirio was in a tough spot as well… From one side, he wanted to help the green hero and face the villains together, even though he knew he wouldn't be of much help... The beast they were facing was way too fast, faster than his reaction time, that's how he got his wound in the first place… But on the other side, they needed to rescue the injured in their arms. It was one of the most difficult decisions he was ever forced to make, but at the sound of ground being broken, all heroes-in-training became alert.
Quickly turning around, Izuku caught the beast's hands, stopping it from attacking anyone behind him while the wind roared around the two.
"GO! I'LL HOLD THEM BACK!" the green haired shouted while trying to push the black monster back.
Without other option, Mirio started moving towards the gates as fast as he could while trying not to hurt the girl in his arms. Understanding the situation, both first years followed the peerless hero, leaving the introvert behind.
Once they were far enough, Izuku slid between Nomu's legs and grabbed one of them, making he lose his balance and fall with his belly on the floor, and with a powerful spin, threw the beast away from the teenagers and directed to the pair of villains. The black mist simply warped away while Tomura jumped to the side.
Readjusting himself midflight, the Nomu sank his hands on the floor, slowly stopping and beginning another assault, and he wasn't alone…
While the heroes moved through the plaza, the warping villain appeared in front of them prepared to send them to their doom but to his surprise, Izuku was already expecting it…
Looking to his left, the villain spotted the One for All wielder with his fist already pulled back and prepared to strike.
"I said you won't lay a finger on them!" he roared, releasing his attack at the fog villain.
With his arm's swing, a powerful blast of wind was sent at the evildoer, blowing most the haze that covered him away and revealing his real body that was composed of a white social shirt with a grey waistcoat and tie over it, black pants and shoes, along with five metal plates that covered his neck. This image had caught the introvert of guard.
'So he has a physical body!' Izuku concluded.
Not wasting time, Izuku turned around and locked his gaze on the Noumu that was rapidly getting closer, but at 50%, there weren't limitations…
Creating propulsion force out of pure strength, Izuku shot himself towards the monster while moving faster than a bullet, grabbed the Nomu's arm and, with another spin, threw him away again, but this time he aimed higher to make sure the beast would not use the ground like he did last time.
"Interesting…" Tomura muttered from afar.
The villain covered in hands hadn't move at all, he just stood there analyzing the teen's performance against the artificial living being and the mist villain, and to his surprise… The green haired was wining.
"I'm losing my patience… Nomu, finish this already!" Tomura ordered and without a second of hesitation, the beast obeyed.
Copying Izuku's movements, the Nomu shot himself at the running teens, acting as a living missile. In reaction, the green haired slammed the ground below him, creating a massive stone pillar that stopped the beast's assault.
'One minute remaining!' Izuku counted while trying to ignore the pain that his recent move had caused.
Not giving him time to think, Kurogiri teleported next to Tsuyu, tying to warp her and Aisawa away from the group of heroes, but at the same time his fog started moving towards the girl, something pulled him back. Turning around, he spotted Izuku holding him by one of his metal plates and smashing him against the floor with immense strength.
"Keep moving!" Izuku ordered while pulling his fist back, prepared to knock out the villain bellow him but was stopped as a black strong hand grabbed him by the arm. In reaction, the introvert swung his other arm and attacked the Nomu directly in the head while Kurogiri warped away.
As his fist connected, Izuku was surprised to see that it had done nothing to the enemy, who prepared to attack with his free hand. Moving quickly, the green haired hopped, dodging the attack and giving him enough room to plant his feet on the monster's chest and kick it with full force. The strike pushed him back, allowing the green haired to release his arm but it didn't cause any damage.
"How can this guy tank me at 50%?!" Izuku asked, not noticing that he was yelling instead of thinking his question.
"Nomu has shock absorption, your attack will do nothing against him!" Tomura explained with a malicious grin in his face.
'Shock absorption? Then he is this fast and strong naturally?!' Izuku wondered, frightened with the sudden revelation.
'No matter, I still have thirty seconds!'
While Izuku held the villains back, Mirio, Tsuyu and Denki crossed the plaza, dragging the injured heroes along with them but as Denki slowly recovered from having his brain fried, he asked…
"W-Why a-are we l-leaving Izuku b-behind?" he asked although his ability to talk hasn't fully recovered.
"It is our only option… He's the only one capable of standing up to that Nomu." Mirio explained while continuously running forward.
"B-B-But you're one o-of the 'B-Big T-Three' right? C-C-Can you n-not help h-him?"
With the question in the air, Mirio simply became silent. He felt so useless right now, a freshman was willing to give his own life for the sake of other's while all he could do was run away. He knew he wasn't as fast as the green haired or the black beast, but he could still try… Aren't heroes supposed to jump into the fray and save the day? But sadly for him… This was out of his reach.
"I know what that kid can do, I saw him throwing that softball… If he has that kind of power, he is the only one here capable of dealing with that monster." Mirio started "I'm not fast enough to react to that thing and that shock absorption makes my attacks useless… The only thing that I can do now is make sure that everyone makes out alive. It hurts me… But that's all I can do right now!"
"M-Mirio…" Nejire muttered tiredly.
"Wait… I can see someone! Right there over the gates!" Tsuyu said, pointing to her classmates standing near the staircase.
"Them let's speed up, Izuku won't be able to hold them back forever!" Mirio ordered while increasing his running speed with the first years doing the same.
Breaking the silence between the green hero and the evildoers, Kurogiri warped back to Tomura's side with most of his mist coating still being restored.
"I'm sorry Tomura, I was not able to go through him…" Kurogiri apolaziged, standing tall beside the villain with extra hands.
"Once again you disappoint me, if I didn't need your quirk you would be dead where you stand…" Tomura threatened, sending an ominous look toward his ally while scratching his chin. "But this time I'll forgive you, that kid is, indeed, powerful." he explained his own twisted way of showing remorse.
Izuku had already pissed him off. Not only was he standing in his way but he also seemed to think that no matter what Tomura threw at him, he would be able to deal with it, and it was making the villain with extra hands really mad.
It was time to finish this…
"I'll give it to you kid, you did put up a good fight…" Tomura started, flashing a malicious grin at the hero-wanna-be. "But I've already seen all you can do and since I'm running out of time I think we should put an end to this…"
"Nomu, no more handicaps… Kill him!"
In no longer than an instant, the Nomu appeared in front of Izuku with both of his arms pulled back and with an extremely intense killer intent. The moment Izuku noticed the monster's movement he knew… No more hold backs.
Pumping 100% through his arms, Izuku stopped the beast's strike, releasing a ridiculously powerful blast of wind, shaking the whole main plaza and starting a life-or-death strength contest.
Just like his last uses of 100%, his arms broke the same moment the impact was released but this time he could not retreat. If he flinched, even if just for a second, his death would be sure. The monster wasn't holding back anymore and it was obvious, even with the green haired at full power, the Nomu could still push him back with no apparent difficulties. Izuku needed to do something, and he needed to do it quick!
"Guys, we're here!" Denki shouted now with his brain back to normal.
As the electric teen called, all students at the top of the staircase turned around and, seeing the state their friends were, rushed towards them in order to help.
"Oh my god… What happened?!" Mina asked, terrified with how beaten up her teacher was.
"The villains have a type of super soldier, that's how they plan to kill All Might!" Tsuyu explained while placing Aisawa in Rikido's shoulder. "We were able to escape but that thing is way too powerful for us to defeat, we need reinforcements!"
"Tenya is on his way to the school and call the teachers… We just have to stall until he arrives!" Affirmed Hanta while helping Denki carry Tamaki.
As the now reunited group of teenagers climbed the stairs and placed the wounded beside the space hero, they felt the ground shake and a massive gust fly by, shaking their bodies and forcing everyone to protect their faces from the wind.
"W-What is this?!" asked Mina, trying her best to stay on her feet.
"Look over there!" exclaimed Hanta as he pointed at the main plaza.
Once everyone looked at the source of such powerful gale, they saw the black beast clashing with the powered up green hero, who was slowly losing his grip and being forced to his back. The wind roared and the floor around them seemed to shatter just from the sheer strength they were showing.
"Oh no, Deku is going to die!" yelled Ochako. "We need to help him!"
"B-But how?! We can't even get close to them!" exclaimed Rikido.
"There's gotta be something!" Denki shouted, trying to formulate a plan of approach.
"We can't do anything right now, none of us has the strength to do anything and with this wind pressure we would be blown off in an instant!" explained Mirio while supporting himself on one of the gate's pillars.
"B-But we can't let him die like this! There has to be something we can do!" Ochako yelled once again while trying to hold the tears back.
With the attention directed to the clash in the plaza, no one noticed that Nejire had slowly lifted herself from her place between the injured teachers and moved through the mass of first years and appear by Mirio's side, holding herself on his shoulder and catching him by surprise.
"N-Nejire?! You can't be here, you need to…"
"Izuku… Will… Win…" Nejire said with difficulty, interrupting the peerless hero midsentence.
Everyone just looked at the heroine with surprise in their eyes. She was badly injured, to the point where it was even hard for her to talk… Yet there she was, supporting the teenager that was willingly sacrificing himself for the sake of others. No one knew why, Nejire herself wasn't sure why she was rooting so badly for the introvert, but after seeing his actions, hearing his words, feeling his embrace, she felt like it was her obligation to be there for him and make he keep going. It was like something from the depths of her heart made her feel that way…
"He will win… He promised to save us…" the bluenette continued, never removing her gaze from the green hero.
Everyone paused, they didn't know how to react. Even if he promised to save them, how would he defeat something that could not take damage? With the wind being the only that could be listened, Ochako broke the silence between the students…
"You can do it, Deku!" she shouted, following the top student's actions.
They were hesitant, but after a moment, everyone was following Ochako's lead…
"Don't give up now!" yelled Mirio.
"We're counting on you!" screamed Hanta.
"Knock them dean!" shouted Mina.
"Go get them!" screamed Denki.
"You're our last hope!" yelled Rikido.
While Izuku fought for his and his friends lives, Tomura slowly moved closer to the competitors with a malicious grin visible in his face.
"Well, looks like they still believe in you Mr. Hero…" he mocked while the green haired struggled against the black beast. "Too bad they don't know it is useless… Finish him!"
With the new orders the Nomu increased the force in his arms and with one last push… Izuku lost his grip.
"I'm sorry…" was all the teenager managed to say before being smashed on the ground and officially defeated.
All teenagers just stared in terror. Izuku had been killed in front of their eyes and they could do nothing about it. Tears fell from their eyes while Nejire fell on her knees.
She just couldn't take it. That boy had saved her, he had risked his life to protect her and ended paying the ultimate price… Even though Izuku was the one who had been killed, she was the one feeling defeated… With water falling from her eyes, Nejire gathered all the strength she had left and did the only thing she could…
"IZUKU!" she cried, letting her voice echo through the entire plaza.
"Now that this brat is out of the way, let's finish what we started… Kill all of them!" Tomura ordered as he pointed at the teenagers at the establishment's gates.
Once again following the commands, the Nomu glared at his targets with a killer intent that made all the students shiver, but as the seconds passed… The monster was not moving… Tomura did not understand.
"What are you waiting for… Kill them!" the villain repeated but, once again, the Nomu did not move, it remained in knelt down, with it's arms dug on the concrete and continuing to glare at the teenagers. Everyone was confused, was the monster disobeying its master on purpose? No one knew why but as the villain continued to give orders to the unmoving beast…
Another tremor occurred…
"I won't let you kill them!" a strong voice said from bellow the Nomu.
As both heroes and villains looked at the source of the sound, green sparks were being released from under the monster. Followed by a powerful gust that blew the villain covered in hands away, Izuku emerged from the crater, with their hands still connected, pushing the Anti-Symbol of Peace back with no difficulties and quickly standing on his feet once again but he was looking different…
His usual curly dark green hair was now vibrant and spikier, the sparks his body emanated were twice as thicker than before, his eyes also emanated sparks and his costume was slowly being ripped apart. He looked unbeatable!
"I WILL SAVE EVERYONE!" Izuku shouted as he continued to push the black monster back without breaking a sweat. Even if it wasn't holding back anymore, the Nomu was no match for this new form that the green haired was showing.
Step after step Izuku pushed him back, causing various tremors and releasing powerful gusts with each one that forced all spectators to protect themselves, even blowing Kurogiri's covering haze away, but it did not matter…
It was time to finish this!
With one quick move, Izuku released the beast and grabbed both of its wrists with his left hand, crushing them. Pulling his right arm back, green sparks began to completely cover the teenager's limb, making it look like it was made out of pure energy, and with one mighty roar… The green haired attacked.
"OVERCHARGED DETROIT SMASH!"
With this extraordinary attack the beast was sent rocketing across the establishment with a powerful gale following it. It flew over the plaza and the flood zone, destroying the boat and lifting the water from the artificial disaster zone, hitting the dome wall and creating a massive dent on it.
Everyone just stared in awe as the introvert's assault came into a close. Slowly the wind stopped and the water fell back to the flood, allowing the spectators to see the result of such powerful strike.
The monster was unconscious… His beak-like mouth was cracked, the top right part of his chest was completely obliterated but was slowly regenerating and his eyes were now just a pair of white empty orbs on the monster's face.
The Nomu had been defeated.
"He… Won…" Ochako said slowly, still surprised with the sheer force that her classmate had just displayed.
"HE WON!" yelled Mina, hopping out of pure happiness.
"Good one, Izuku! exclaimed Hanta while bumping his fist with Rikido.
"That's how heroes do it!" shouted the sugar man.
Nejire just stared in amazement. Izuku had just won an impossible battle, he outdid everyone expectations… But something was off.
Looking at the teen from afar, the bluenette noticed that he was not moving, he was in the same position as when he punched the monster and like that he stayed, not moving a muscle, only breathing. But while the heroes cheered for their victory… The villain became angry at his defeat.
"Impossible!" roared Tomura while glaring at the green hero with rage in his eyes. "Nomu was created to kill All Might, there's no way that he would lose to a brat like you! YOU CHEATED!"
With his last cry, Tomura began his charge with Kurogiri right behind him. He was going to kill that child even if it was the last thing he was going to do! But even with the pair of evildoers sprinting at his direction, Izuku did not respond.
"Why is he not moving?!" asked Mina, not understanding the situation that the introvert was at.
"He told us that he hurts himself if overuses his quirk…" explained Tsuyu as her eyes widened in terror. "He must have passed out!
"Oh no, they're going to kill him!" yelled Denki.
"Hold Nejire!" ordered Mirio while placing the bluenette in Ochako's arms and beginning his sprint to save the green haired.
But before he could permeate through the floor a loud boom came from behind the teenagers. In an instant a yellow blur passed through them and reached Izuku and grabbed him, moving the boy out of the villains' attacks.
"Worry not, because I am here!" the figure announced, showing his identity and revealing to be All Might, now holding Izuku in his arms. "And I am not alone…"
Moving through the mass of students, various pro heroes along with Tenya stepped out of the gates and announced their arrival.
"Class president Tenya Iida reporting for duty!" he shouted as the teachers began their operation.
"There are three students at the mountain, two at the landslide, downpur and collapsed zones and one at the conflagration!" informed Hound Dog as he sniffed the air and felt the students scent.
"Ectoplasm, create clones and send them to help the students!" ordered Nedzu from Vlad King's shoulder.
"Roger!" said Ectoplasm while doing as told.
"No, no, no, NO!" Tomura cried as the pros began moving out and help the students, making the villain's invasion crash down.
"It is over villain. This ends now!" exclaimed All Might as he looked at the pair of villains in front of him.
"This is far from over! You may have won today but next time I'll be the one to give the last laugh… I'll be the one to kill you!" Tomura shouted while signalizing to Kurogiri to warp them away.
As the dark haze began enveloping the villain covered in hands, All Might quickly, but carefully, place Izuku on the floor and rushed at the escaping evildoers but as he was about to grab the blue haired villain, he and the dark fog disappeared, leaving him to grab the air that filled the area where the evildoers once stood.
"Damn it!" All Might grunted as he failed to capture the responsible for the invasion.
Looking back at his successor and once again holding him in his arms, the No.1 hero was taken back by the state he was. His arms were completely shattered, his costume was torn and there was blood all over the teenager's body, he was seriously damaged.
"Don't worry young Izuku… This chaos is over!" All Might comforted him while pulling his successor to a soft hug while trying not to hurt the green ahired even more.
And with the pros' arrival and the villains' escape, the hell known as the 'U.S.J. invasion' had finally ended.
And that was it! Just to clear things out, the move Izuku used, the 'Overcharge', is just a simple way to say that Izuku used more than 100% in that attack, I can't tell how much he really used since I don't have precise information on how much shock the Nomu could absorb but all that I can say is that he used enough to go over the Nomu's limit... Anyway, now I have to begin writting all with even more frequency since I don't have more pre-written chapters to back me up, also, I'll be really ocupied in the next few weeks so I may not be able to post chapters in our schedule or maybe not even post at all. I'll do my best to keep you updated but this is as far as I can guarantee... But with that said...
Thank you for reading...
See ya!
